1.   Before us the entire universe is spread out like a bolt of black silk unfurled.

2.   Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances.

3.   Nowadays, physicists routinely extract entire universes out of nothing-on paper, anyway.

4.   The entire physical universe in this conception was only a few times larger than the distance from Earth to the Moon.

5.   The entire universe seemed to be the source.

6.   The entire universe was utterly simple.

7.   The entire universe will have heard of her by then.

8.   Hawking went on to demonstrate-again if general relativity is correct-that the entire universe must have sprung from a singularity.

9.   Nothing else mattered any more, nothing else in the entire universe held any significance except the man holding her with such quiet strength.